I hear a lot of talk about Japanese saws and American hand saws but I don't hear anything on these forums about bow saws. I've only ever used them growing up cutting Christmas trees or cutting branches that got too close to a building. But, I had a boss in a shop once that talked about a framer he had that had one and said it cut quite quickly. Does anyone use them for framing on a regular basis? If so how?

I got my rip saw from an antique tools collector with a barrel full of hand saws. He liked the collecting aspect of it but his wife told him he had to sell some before he could buy more.